“We wouldn’t be here without Habitat,” says Bernadette. “Here” is having three children graduated from university and her mortgage paid off — milestones she couldn’t have imagined reaching decades earlier when she was a single mother making just eleven dollars per hour.
Before she partnered with Habitat for Humanity Huronia 19 years ago, Bernadette was living in social housing in Barrie, Ontario, with her three children. They came to the small city from Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan just a few years earlier in an effort to move further away from the [ .....Full Story ]